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New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Class Instructor Manual Digital Version

Description

New Ways for Families® is an innovative method of teaching parents simple skills to manage conflicts, negotiate decisions, promote respectful communication, encourage themselves in times of stress and co-parent more effectively. This method has been designed to be simple and repetitive, so that almost all parents can learn these skills and apply them in their lives when dealing with each other, with their children and with anyone.

Decision Skills Class Instructor Manual Digital Version.

We have adapted the New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Class Instructor Manual as a digital version. This is not a PDF. 

Strengthen Parents Decision-Making Skills

By strengthening their decision-making skills, parents can bring more stability to their own life and that of their children, if any. Many of these decisions need to be made with a former spouse or partner who may have temporary or long-term difficulty in making reasonable decisions. These skills will help them cope regardless of the other person’s behavior.

The 4 Big Skills™

  1. flexible thinking
  2. managed emotions
  3. moderate behaviors
  4. taking responsibility

New Ways for Families® is designed to help even the most difficult parents, so it is taught in several different formats, from Pre-Mediation Coaching, up to the full counseling model of six individual parent counseling sessions and three parent-child counseling sessions for each parent. The Decisions Skills Class and the workbook were designed to be a group learning activity taught in three 60 or 90 minute class sessions, either as a free-standing class, or as part of a longer parenting class. You can also do this 1:1 if required. The parents who need stronger skills can be referred to use a more intensive model of New Ways for Families® (such as the Counseling Model of individual and parent-child counseling sessions) after taking this Decision Skills Class.

Parents can be court-ordered into the class or participate voluntarily. The class be can be taught as three class sessions or individual sessions (60-90 minutes each) or can be incorporated into any existing parenting class curriculum. The class sessions are structured using the Decision Skills Workbook. Parents are expected to work through the workbook during class or your 1:1 session with the assistance of an instructor.

This is a shorter version of the 12-week New Ways for Families Counseling Model, but the focus remains on learning and practicing the 4 Big Skills. It is not intended to replace parenting classes that focus on other aspects of the parent-child relationship during divorce.

There are four specific purposes for this Decisions Skills Class and the workbook:

  1. to communicate with BIFF Responses (moderate behaviors)
  2. to calm oneself with encouraging statements (managed emotions)
  3. to learn to make and respond to proposals (flexible thinking)
  4. to learn to check oneself (to remember to use these skills)

Instructor
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute in San Diego, California. He pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP) and has become an expert on managing disputes involving people with high conflict personalities. He was the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center for 15 years, a Certified Family Law Specialist lawyer representing clients in family court for 15 years, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist with twelve years’ experience.

He serves on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law in California and is a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 30 U.S. states and 10 countries.

He is the author or co-author of twenty books and has a popular blog on the Psychology Today website with over 4.0 million views.

After Purchase

After you complete your purchase on this page, you will set up your login credentials and immediately have access to the instructor manual in digital format. (It is not a PDF) 

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